Ewing, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Huntington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75949. It lies near Big Island. The Survey maps it on the Etoile South quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Broaddus quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Etoile South quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
- 2003 USGS Etoile South quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
146 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Ewing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,005 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 16 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 66 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 459 |
| 28 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 583 |
| 25 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 90-2011 |
| 23 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 244 |
| 20 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2000 | Natural | 35 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 455 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ewing in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2014 | Hail | Ewing | - | Nickel size hail was reported in Kingtown Landing Store. |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Crossing | 2.0 miles | 14 | |
| Alco | 4.5 miles | 14 | |
| Rocky Springs | 6.5 miles | 14 | |
| Dunagan | 6.9 miles | 14 | |
| Platt | 6.9 miles | 15 | |
| Oak Flat | 6.9 miles | 14 | |
| Ora | 7.4 miles | 13 | |
| Huntington | 8.0 miles | 14 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Ewing | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q110530728 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1381855. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.







